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scales from occiput. Pectorals reaching to origin of anal or farther. 

 Ventrals much longer than head, extending at least to the 

 middle of the anal, their origin a little nearer to caudal than 

 to hindmargin of eye. Caudal deeply forked. Colour of preserved 

 specimens brownish above, silvery below. Fins hyaline, pectorals 

 blackish in their upper half. Length 260 mm. 



Nom. indig. : Ikan terbang (Malay. Batavia), Luwin-luwin 

 (Ambon), Antori biru (Batjan). 



Habitat: Singapore ; Sumatra (Padang, Priaman) ; Java-sea ! ; 

 Java (Batavia!); Borneo (Sarawak); Bali; Flores!; Celebes (Ma- 

 kassar) ; Batjan ; Obi !; Ambon ; Banda. — Philippines, Solomons, 

 Shortland Island, Tahiti, Muscat, Zanzibar, Bourbon, China. 



Note. We have examined specimens of E. oligolepis, hra- 

 chysoDia and neglecttis of Bleeker's collection in the Leiden 

 Museum. We can't find any difference between specimens of 

 the two first named species, while the specimen of E. neglecttis 

 is a little more elongate and has 28 rows of scales between 

 occiput and dorsal, while the others have only 22 or 23. One 

 of us [l.s.c] has already mentioned a specimen from Obi, which 

 has the measurements of bracJiysonia but the high number of 

 scales between occiput and dorsal of neglectus. The differences 

 between E. neglectus and the other two species are thus bridged 

 over. There is no difference in the number of dorsal rays 

 between the three species of Bleeker, as mentioned by 

 the author. 



13- Cypsilurus bahiensis (Ranz.) 



Exocoetus bahiensis Ranzani, Nov. Comm. Acad. Sci. Inst. Bonon. V. 1842, p. 362. 



Exocoetus spilonotopterus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dier-k. III. 1866, p. 113. 



Exocoetus bahiensis Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VI. 1866, p. 293. 



Exocoetus bahiensis Bleeker, Atl. ichth. VI. 1866 — 1872, p. 71. 



Exocoetus bahiensis Day, Fishes of India 4°, 1878 — 1888, p. 518. 



} Cypsilurus bahiensis Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish Comni. XXIII. (1903) 



1905, p. 136. 

 Cypselurus spilonopterus Jordan & Richardson, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. XXVII. 



(1907) 1908, p. 243. 

 Cypsilurus spilonotopterus Jordan & Dickerson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Wash. 



XXXIV. 1908, p. 606. 

 Exocoetus bahiensis Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft VIII. 1909, p. 369. 

 Cypsilurus bahiensis Kendall & Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Compar. Zoology 



Harvard Coll. XXVI. No. 7, 19I1. p. 253. 



D. 13; A. 10— II ; P. I.I 3; V. 6; L.l. 48; L.tr. T. 



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